Zompist Bboard Again

I have a date on Wednesday. She's Bavarian and doing her master's in ancient history, starting ancient Greek this term. We met at a housing complex party at which I was fairly inebriated and speaking rather poor German, but somehow I impressed her and we'll be going to a cute little coffee shop near...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2019 11:46 am

dhok wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2019 10:35 am Mongoloid

My initial thought when I read this was whether this word was kosher to use in any context...

I mean, Igboid and Bantoid are.

reminder that if Africanists were responsible for classifying the languages of Eurasia, we'd be debating whether Khitan constituted a member of Mongoloid

In May 2018, Hopkins won an IPSO case against the Daily Mirror for claiming that she had been detained in South Africa in February 2018 for taking ketamine.[176] The Mirror updated the headline to say that she had been detained for spreading racial hatred, and included a correction in the article.[...

Furthermore it only occurs in one mood (indicative). The subjunctive isn't even really real, though, is it? It only operates after a closed stock of expressions and in that- clauses acting as complements of verbs like recommend and suggest , and then mostly in the formal speech of the relatively ed...

English verbal conjugation is far more bizarre: I don't know of any other language where verbal agreement is limited to one person/number combination out of six and appears only in a single tense (everywhere but the copula, that is). Furthermore it only occurs in one mood (indicative). The subjunct...

English verbal conjugation is far more bizarre: I don't know of any other language where verbal agreement is limited to one person/number combination out of six and appears only in a single tense (everywhere but the copula, that is). Colloquial French is headed that way, isn't it? In most varieties...

English verbal conjugation is far more bizarre: I don't know of any other language where verbal agreement is limited to one person/number combination out of six and appears only in a single tense (everywhere but the copula, that is).

Both Portuguese and Italian have inverno, which suggests an irregular lenition of *b in this word.

Vowel lowering is rarer than vowel raising, for whatever reason. However, I can think of two examples off the top of my head of high vowels lowering; neither of them are /y/, but they provide a sufficient justification for what you're trying to do: - Romance/Modern Persian: short *ĭ *ŭ > /e o/, long...

Since I'm in Vienna, I may as well report what I've gleaned in the run-up to elections on the 29th. Basically, the 2017 elections gave Austria a government run by the center-right People's Party of Austria in coalition with the far-right* FPÖ, headed by People's Party Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, a 33...

Can anyone explain or point me in the direction of why in PIE descendants (I'm thinking Russian and Hindi for sure, and no doubt others) why the animate direct objects are usually/always in the genetive case? (Or rather why the accusative case of animates looks the same as the genetive) Differentia...

Muddying the waters--I don't think I saw Whim mention this, though I apologize if he did and I failed to catch it--is that Blackfoot is clearly Algonquian, but seems to have split off very early, so that the rest of Algonquian is itself a proper clade. However, Blackfoot is rather phonologically (an...

Morrigan's SCA allows you to create ad hoc categories and even treat multi-character sequences as individual segments. It's probably easiest to just do something like  = â ê î ô û, À = à è ì ò ù and then  > À.

imagine not having judicial review

You would get a plain velar from the boukólos rule anyways. Presupposing a pre-PIE *lewkʷ- seems reasonable.

Finnish distinguishes inclusive ( tai ) and exclusive ( vai ); That's not quite the distinction, it's one of pragmatics: as a conjunction vai is primarily used for questions with options, tai otherwise (the non-conjunction uses are not relevant at all probably). The former pretty much implies exclu...

Yes, Greek has ἤ...ἤ..., Latin aut...aut... and Russian или...или....

Finnish distinguishes inclusive (tai) and exclusive (vai); I don't know the etymology.

But there are some things we don't realize are American. The stereotype for Americans who go to Europe is that they can never find peanut butter. Peanut butter has started to spread to Europe, but I had a hard time finding beef jerky in Germany. Root beer. Also Dr. Pepper. You can find Americans wh...

Vijay wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2019 2:54 pm

mèþru wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2019 12:57 pmHas /tʰ/ > /s/ ever happened withut an intermediary non-sibilant fricative?

Isn't that kind of what happened to Hebrew words in Yiddish?

EDIT: Also Finnish: root vete- 'water' → vesi

This is a general process of *t -> s before /i/ and likely went through /ts/.